Army engaged with all institutions to counter spectrum of threats: Gen Qamar

Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa has said that a full spectrum of threats demands comprehensive national response and Army is fully engaged in enabling that response in coordination with all other state institutions.

“Highlighting internal and external challenges to national security, COAS said that the full spectrum of threat demands comprehensive national response and Army is fully engaged in enabling that response in coordination with other institutions of the state,” the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement.

Gen Qamar addressed participants of National Security and War Course at National Defence University Islamabad, it added.

The army chief said terrorism has no religion, sect or ethnicity. “Pakistan has fought against this menace indiscriminately and shall root it out through ongoing operation Radd-ul-Fasaad.”

Terrorism, he added, can not be defeated by closing eyes from one’s own responsibilities and resorting to throwing blames outside as being done by few players in the region.